Azzurro only beaten by Birkeland

There were four shooting tests in the Super Sprint and a total of five kilometers had to be covered on the cross-country ski trail. In the men's race, it looked like Germany's Justus Strelow would win until the last shooting. When he left a target at the shooting range after the last test and had to go into the penalty loop, the Norwegian Lars Helge Birkeland took advantage of the moment and came out on top with a winning time of 14.39,6:XNUMX minutes.

Birkeland, who also had to go into the penalty loop once during the competition, is the reigning relay world champion and won the silver medal with Norway as a team at the Winter Olympics in Pyeonchang. The Frenchman Martin Perrillat Bottonet and the Azzurro Rudy Zini fought a thrilling battle for second place in Ridnaun, which the Italian narrowly won.

Zini celebrates best result in the IBU Cup “After a difficult season, I am happy and proud that things have started so well. To achieve such a great result in front of a home crowd – the best of my career in the IBU Cup – is of course something very special. This competition format, which I took part in for the first time today, suits me. I can shoot pretty quickly and have worked a lot in that regard,” said Zini at the finish. With Thierry Chenal, a second Italian qualified for the final. The Aosta native came 26th. For the local hero from Ridnaun, Patrick Braunhofer, the qualification was the end of the line.

Ingela Andersson, on the other hand, is the winner of the first women's Ridnaun Super Sprint. The Swede, who took second place in the traditional sprint in Ridnaun last year, overtook the Ukrainian Anastasiya Merkushyna on the final lap, who had set the fastest time in the qualification that morning. Andersson won in 16.26,1:1,7 minutes, 28 seconds ahead of Merkushyna. Frenchwoman Lou Jeanmonnot took third place. “It's not easy to run here in Ridnaun because of the altitude. I've noticed in the past few days that I'm having a harder time breathing. “It went well at the shooting range today, I’m very happy,” said the XNUMX-year-old Scandinavian. Alexia Runggaldier is looking for ninth place With Alexia Runggaldier, one of four Azzurre made it to the final. The 28-year-old from Val Gardena took ninth place – and was not satisfied with that. “I had very good skis today, but unfortunately I couldn't really use them. I had a really hard time on the cross-country ski trail. At the shooting range it was fine with two reloaders,” summed up Runggaldier. A second South Tyrolean, Irene Lardschneider, competed in the qualification in the morning, but the biathlete, who also comes from Val Gardena, did not progress.

The IBU Cup in Ridnaun continues with a sprint on Saturday. The women's race is scheduled to start at 11 a.m., the men's race begins at 14 p.m. On Sunday the South Tyrolean biathlon spectacle will conclude with a mass start 60. Results IBU Cup Ridnaun Super sprint men 1. Lars Helge Birkeland NOR 14.39,6:1 minutes/2+XNUMX 2. Rudy Zini ITA +7,5 seconds/0+1 3. Martin Perrillat Bottonet FRA +8,5/0+3 4. Sergii Semenov UKR +9,0/0+1 5. Justus Strelow GER +10,8/1+1

Super sprint women 1. Ingela Andersson SWE 16.26,1/0+3 2. Anastasiya Merkushyna UKR +1,7/0+3 3. Lou Jeanmonnot FRA +5,9/0+1 4. Anna Magnusson SWE +11,3/0+2 5. Paolina Shevnina RUS +12,1/0+3

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Azzurro only beaten by Birkeland

At the IBU Cup in Ridnaun, the Super Sprints were on the program on the first day of competition. While an Azzurro came in second place among the men, a South Tyrolean woman made it into the top 2 among the women.

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